... ate my first tomato and finished off with the top greenery as well. I Didn't kill it when I discovered it because I thought I might get out and photograph it for all you folks to see. Well that plan didn't work, it was gone the very next day. I curse that greedy little bug and I hope one of the Mocking Birds tore it up and ate it.
It is funny because at first I thought for sure a deer had eaten that tomato or perhaps even a bird. The tomato looked like that classic "apple core" still hanging on the "tree". Mark actually discovered the catapillar, and it was huge, maybe a half inch in girth and four inches long in a very bright shade of green. The kind of gaudy green I wish I had noticed two days before when the damage had first started to appear.
As for the rest of the garden, my first squash has also disappeared. The first cucumber has withered and died on the vine before it was 2 inches long. The banana peppers give me some hope and I have had a chance to cook with my first one. It was pretty good. Could all this excess rain be part of the problem?
My flower gardens are looking quite nice. My echinacea or Cone Flowers have started blooming, as well as my perrennial Hibiscus bush (that I thought was dead). Also my Day Lilies are doing quite nice. I also failed to mention quite come time ago that my Salvia, Liatris, Veronica and Butterfly Bush have all made it back and are blooming nicely.
Japanese beetles are attempting to move in on some of these flowers and ruin my fun. I'll have to keep you posted.
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